Thread about the crusades.
Lets discuss the crusaders /his/, why are they so cool? How did they exactly operate with say the Kingdom of Jerusalem, were they obliged to obey the king or the pope? From my understanding the knights templars operated like a private limited company. Why were they hunted down when other knight orders were allowed to go on and many of them surviving today?
Crusaders looked way cooler than muslim forces...
Do muslims really think the muslim get ups were more aesthetic?
I mean croocked swords cannot compare with big straight ones and so on...
>>564351
They're better on horseback though, something Christians didn't realise till after the Crusades.
>>564370
You mean christian forces were better on horseback? Why?
What would China look like today had the KMT been victorious over the Communists?
Pic related, the extent of the KMT Republic of China from 1912-1949
>>563936
China would be neutral to hostile with the USSR from the start, especially without a Mongolian buffer state and with them both claiming Tuva.
This also means there's no communist China to support North Korea (if there still is a Korean war and a North Korea), which means the peninsula stays united and probably in Chinese sphere of influence instead of American.
Also means the Soviets won't be able to supply the Viet Cong nearly as much. They might still win out a war of attrition, again assuming that still happens.
>>564248
What would it be like in terms of economics and development? Would China be as developed or powerful as it is today?
No cheap labor for the western free market in the 80/90s
Post nice maps.
That's it.
Oh well, I guess I've got time to spare.
Here, I even have a map from this series.
If anyone has any questions about any of the map I post, feel free to ask.
The roman empire had two main languages, greek and latin. But while latin gave birth to french, portuguese, spanish and italian, greek language is now only spoken in Greece. Why the germanic tribes adopted latin but the slavic tribes did not ?
Anatolians adopted Greek language
>>563655
The Franks and Iberians were massive cucks while The Slavs weren't
This is true to this day
>>563655
Because the West was destroyed and the tribes squatted on its remains, using its legal system, church structure etc.
Slavs destroyed all that they found in their ravages of Pannonia, Thrace, Dalmatia etc. in the 6th and 7th centuries and did not take to Christianity (while the tribes in the west mostly had already been converted while they were outside of the Roman Empire, the Slavs had been too far outside to be converted).
Slavs essentially didn't bother to keep hold of any civilisation that they found since they did not associate Romanitas with their religion. It took many centuries for them to get anywhere near to where the Visigoths, Franks etc. got. Even the illiterate Saxons, Frisians, Jutes and Angles managed to convert quicker and then create unified kingdoms.
Tell me about this country, /his/.
For such a small and irrelevant (in modern times) country they seem to have a generally rich history.
they were the best cannon engineers at the end of medieval era and got paid by kebabs to take down the greatest city ever
1453 was an inside job
>>563989
It's not really know if Orban was Bulgarian, Dacian ,Wallachian, German or Hungarian
>>563646
Christian Turks that became Slavicised then occupied by Muslim Turks. Am I missing something?
If Calvinists believed in predestination, then why would they have such a strong moral code? If their lives are predetermined, isn't anything they do god's will?
Predestined for dubs
There is no predestination.
God has foreknowledge, i.e He knows what's going to happen (hence the Bible telling us what will happen in the future end times).
But God does not 'actively' choose and rig the world. Everyone chooses to accept or reject salvation, it's free will.
God knows who will get saved and who won't, but He is not "choosing" as Calvinists claim.
Calvinism, just like Anglicanism, is basically Protestant Popery.
>take scripture
>systematize it like the Catholics did
>>563601
I don't get this, how can god not be responsible for peoples choices if he created the environment and conditions people make them in AND the people, knowing all the ramifications beforehand. Maybe it's just me being dull but I really can't see any scenario where a creature has any real choice in a system created by an omnipotent and omniscient creator.
Does the past "exist"?
>>563567
I have pictures of it.
Only God can see the past, present and future at will. This is because He is outside of time.
We are constrained in time, we always live in the present.
Is time fundamentally non-linear, but only perceived by us as being linear? Hard to say desu
Pascal's Wager.
>>563562
Because the choice is a 50-50 toss up between Christianity and Atheism, amirite?
checkmate fedoras
>>563617
Ignoring the mountain of evidence supporting Christianity over atheism, Christianity is a better choice by logic and reason alone.
Are you willing to risk eternity?
Are you willing to gamble it away?
"A fight between several parties of the British people: Nothing of the kind! A fight between two or three big money combines, that and nothing else. Without the weight of money behind the party machines, in an electoral battle today determined purely by principle and by the number of active workers...British Union could fight and beat today the old parties over the whole electoral field. But you know and I know, the battle is nothing of the kind. The battle is between big money combines who spend a thousand pounds or more on every constituency they fight. Or when they speak democracy, they don't mean government by the people...they mean financial democracy, in which money counts and nothing but money."
Was he right /his/, are/were countries like the United Kingdom and the USA nothing more than financial democracies, where money is the main factor in any election victory, and third parties are unable to establish themselves?
>>563548
Yeah that's why the two main parties in the UK are Tories and Whigs, and Labour never managed to form a government.
He was right to a large degree. But the key to democracy is getting people to believe your bullshit. If you have a wet cloth of a leader like Ed Milliband, you're not going to get far no matter how much money you pump into schools to get them to enforce diversity and equality.
It's not the only factor, but it's equally powerful as good policies and leadership, and can make up for it in many cases, it's why the leaders of governing and opposition parties in the UK buddy up to Rupert Murdoch and his media empire, while in the USA candidates try to get in the good books of a major news broadcaster those with money are the greatest allies in politics if you don't have it yourself
>tfw muslims say that while europe was in the dark ages the muslim world was flourishing
>mfw all the muslim advancements in science, medicine, and math were created by Persians (Aryans)
how are indo-europeans not the master race?
Muslims aren't a race, but the Universal Religion; so we don't care about the ethnic origin of the Muslim scholars as much as anyone else.
And not all of the advancements were made by Persians, rather many.
>>563651
If only the Persians weren't sectarian plebs
Persians are still muslims, Chubek
Byzantium is overrated there was almost nothing unique about them
Kill yourself today
>>563447
>Trying to be this edgy
>>563447
OP is overrated
When did Native Anatolian languages go extinct?
They weren't native since they were Indo-European.
>>563449
ok
let's talk about Hatti language then
was it related to semitic or caucasian languages?
>>563460
Caucasian, probably. Lemnian language spoken on Lemnos might have been a true native language of the region though. It's thought to be related to Etruscan.
What is the ground of all Being?
The One
>>563410
Get out with your filthy metaphysics
:^)
>>563410
Not a deity.
How were Trojans stupid enough to fell for it?
Thank God for Christianity, pagans were so fucking retarded and superstitious.
>>563253
It wasn't IRL anon
Thought it was just a story? what the fuck.
So does the morally righteous God create or conform to states of pure morality?
He is those things.
The reason there is good in the world is because all of those benevolent thoughts and actions are a reflection of God.
We were made in His image, so we share a little glimpse into what He is like.
As for sin and evil, that's what separation from God is like.
When we compare subjective morals between nations/states/people, we are infact comparing them to an objective moral standard, which is what we could call God's standard or absolute good/law.
C.S. Lewis goes more in detail about this in his book "Mere Christianity".
>>563228
This. if there was no God, we would be nothing but savage animals seeking to fulfill our chemical urges. there would be no such thing as "good" or "wrong", everthing becomes relative and lawless
>>563241
>if there was no God, we would be nothing but savage animals seeking to fulfill our chemical urges
I guess there is no God then
